CHAPTER XVII.
LYCEUMS AND LECTURERS.
The Lyceum Bureau was, at one time, a great feature in American life.
The three leading bureaus were in Boston, New York, and Chicago.

The managers, map in hand, would lay out trips, more or less extensive according to the capacity or will of the speakers, and then, with a dozen or more victims in hand, make arrangements with the committees in various towns and cities to set them all in motion.

As the managers of the bureaus had ten per cent.

of what the speakers made, it was to their interest to keep the time well filled.

Hence the engagements were made without the slightest reference to the comfort of the travelers.